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Festival 2008 | Award winners |
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Arts documentary |
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| Title: Strictly Bolshoi |
| Production: Ballet Boyz Productions Ltd |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
This intimate and thrilling one-off film follows the world's most sought-after ballet choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, as he becomes the first Englishman to be invited to create a new work for the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet. Featuring fly-on-the-wall footage of the creative process in Moscow, and diary cam confessions, this film allows the viewer to witness first hand the trials and tribulations involved in creating a ballet for one of the world's most notorious artistic establishments. |
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Drama |
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| Title: Skins |
| Production: Company Pictures / Storm Dog Films |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: E4 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Skins is an off-beat comedy drama series about a group of 16-17 year old friends who grab life by the balls and give it a twirl. Kids who party hard, pass exams, have sex, self-harm, manage their parents, interface with their teachers and push boundaries - both home and abroad. The result is a hilarious mixture of sweet, charming and sometimes heartbreaking stories which focus on comic potential as well as proper emotional development. |
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Drama: special mention |
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| Title: The Street II |
| Production: Granada Productions |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: BBC 2 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Paul takes a shine to a local girl and gets the courage to ask her out.Paul confides to her that he carries a terrible secret that he cannot share.On his way home one night, Paul catches sight of a woman and runs away scared.He takes a cocktail of whisky & paracetamol.The doorbell rings and the woman he ran away from is there.What follows in the meeting between the two of them is a disturbing journey to the heart of Paul’s dark secret ending with his redemption the start their reconciliation. |
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Comedy |
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| Title: Kombat Opera Presents… |
| Production: Avalon Television Limited |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: BBC |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Kombat Opera Presents is a new series of contemporary musical-comedies based on major television shows. The presenter of The Applicants (JOHN THOMSON) is an entrepreneur, straight-talking businessman and the hirer-and-firer in reality TV business show The Applicants. The episode sees six remaining contestants pitted against each other to become their mentor’s favourite. |
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Entertainment |
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| Title: Hider in the House |
| Production: Eyeworks BV |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: BBC 2 |
| Country: Netherlands |
Summary:
A huge hit in the UK where it doubled its slot on BBC, HIDER IN THE HOUSE is a hilarious and engaging kids hidden-camera show which all the family can enjoy. A brand new challenge based series that pits the wits of children against mums and dads as they attempt to hide a celebrity in their house for an entire weekend. Now completing its second successful series. |
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Game Show |
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| Title: Power of 10 |
| Production: Embassy Row |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Sony Pictures Television International |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Power of 10 is a high stakes, adrenaline-filled game show that tests contestants' knowledge of public thinking and opinion. This prime time studio game show uses questions based on large-scale professional polling results covering all aspects of the country's thoughts on topics from politics to pop-culture. |
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Performing Arts |
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| Title: Mozart’s Magic Flute – Onstage and Backstage |
| Production: tpc tv productioncenter zürich ag |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: SF Schweizer Fernsehen |
| Country: Switzerland |
Summary:
An innovative live tv format from Zürich opera house showing Mozart's Magic flute conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and directed by Marin Kusej live from two parallel perspectives on two different tv channels: frontstage and backstage on SF 1 and SF zwei. The presented INPUT version integrates both perspecitves and conserves the thrilling live atmosphere of this challenging and overwhelming successful production. |
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Reality |
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| Title: The Phone |
| Production: Park Lane TV Productions |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Park Lane TV Productions |
| Country: Netherlands |
Summary:
The Phone is a movie… A movie played in daily life, with daily people who compete unknowingly, but willingly. Two protagonists caught in a world no one knew existed, a parallel world that is all around us, but only visible to those who pick up 'The Phone'. |
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Sitcom |
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| Title: The IT Crowd |
| Production: Talkback Thames Limited |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
At its heart is the concept that everyone knows the IT department at their work, but that they are in effect second class citizens of the corporate world. Everyone’s favourite people for a brief time (when your computer is broken) but also the people you avoid and ignore at the Xmas party. We wanted to make a show that reflected this “upstairs, downstairs” dynamic, but that made the hero’s of the piece the IT guys themselves. |
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Special prizes |
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Best of 2008: Kombat Opera Presents…
Best of 2008: Avalon Television
Best of 2008: United Kingdom |
| Best entertainer: Peter Serafinowicz |
| Honorary Rose: Ben Silverman |
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